Wavefront Research, Inc.

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Michelle M Stone

Thomas A Mitchell

Thomas W Stone

Jonas D Corl

David M Vincentsen

Randall C Veitch

James W Guelzow

John C Kralik

The present disclosure provides an optoelectronic module. In one aspect, the optoelectronic module includes an insertion member including a housing insert and an imager disposed in the housing insert, and a receiving member including an interposer, a housing disposed on the interposer, and an optoelectronic device electrically connected to said interposer. The housing of the receiving member is configured to engage and receive the housing insert of the insertion member. The optoelectronic device of the receiving member is configured to align with the imager of the insertion member.

Compact annular field imager optical interconnect

Optical connectors that substantially preserve alignment and are easy to manufacture. The alignment system using the optical connectors disclosed herein include a first housing, a second housing and an alignment component, the said alignment component configured to provide optical alignment between the optical components.

Optical connectors

The present disclosure provides an optoelectronic module. In one aspect, the optoelectronic module includes an insertion member including a housing insert and an imager disposed in the housing insert, and a receiving member including an interposer, a housing disposed on the interposer, and an optoelectronic device electrically connected to said interposer. The housing of the receiving member is configured to engage and receive the housing insert of the insertion member, The optoelectronic device of the receiving member is configured to align with the imager of the insertion member.

Systems and methods to provide compact, scalable, low loss optical switches. An optical switch of this invention includes two or more directing elements, each directing element having two or more sections. Each section includes a switchable deviating element. During operation of a two element optical switch of this invention, the first section of the first element can selectively deviate in a first direction the input beam for that section. The second section of the first element can selectively deviate in a second direction the input beam for that section. The optical beams transmitted by the first element constitute the input beams for the second element. The first section of the second element can selectively deviate in a third direction, which can be the same as the first or second direction, the input beam for that section. The second section of the second element can selectively deviate in a fourth direction, which can be the same as the first or second direction, the input beam for that section. By selecting the relationship between the third direction and the first or second direction and the relationship between the fourth direction and the first or second direction, different designs are obtained. Also, multiple input switches can be obtained by either repeating the first section for half of multiple inputs followed by repeated second sections (also refereed to as a segmented design) or by interleaving first and second sections.

Compact optical switches

A PDLC transmissive phase grating utilizing nematic liquid crystal materials confined in a polymer matrix. The PDLC grating operates in the Bragg regime and switches between diffracting and non-diffracting states via an applied electric field. The grating is made up of a PDLC grating film contained within a cell. The PDLC film has a spatially periodic distribution of grating planes which includes polymer-rich regions and liquid crystal-rich regions, wherein the major constituent of the polymer-rich regions is a polymer, and wherein the liquid crystal constituent concentration within the liquid crystal-rich regions is greater than the liquid crystal constituent concentration within said polymer-rich regions. The PDLC transmission phase grating is rendered substantially transparent when subjected to an electric field during the application of light that is p-polarized and incident on the grating at Bragg angle.

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Michelle M Stone